[comp.sys.next] NeXT history

hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU (John Hodges) (09/11/90)

Well, this is news about Common Lisp is just dandy.  I spend a year 
putting a machine and environment together, putting classes and 
assignments together, and NeXT decides not to support the one 
environment which has kept me and my program viable.  

I have been sitting by, using a machine with poor software support,
poor performance, and nearly imperceptable support from the company
for nearly a year.  If Common Lisp loses support I have no reason to
stay with a NeXT whatsoever.  Of course, my courses account for 90%
of the use on the 10 cubes here on campus, so those machines might as
well go into the dumpster.  Sales clout?  Maybe we should hit them
in the groin where it really hurts.  You hurt us, we bury you.  Play
it any way you want, but killing CL is like swallowing cyanide.

Jack Hodges
San Francisco State University